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Maryland family speaks after rabid beaver attacks boy: 'Completely unprovoked'
Fox News • • health
Key Points:
- A 13-year-old boy, Dominick Cebula, was viciously attacked by a large, rabid beaver measuring about four feet long while swimming in Cunningham Falls State Park, Maryland, on July 26.
- The unprovoked attack occurred in front of Dominick's mother and younger brother, with the beaver biting his chest and later his right hand; he was airlifted to Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment and rabies post-exposure vaccines.
- Dominick underwent surgery to repair a severed nerve in his finger and is now recovering well after the traumatic incident.
- The rabid beaver was euthanized, and Cunningham Falls State Park closed swimming access to Hunting Creek Lake following this and two other subsequent beaver attacks in the area.
- Additional attacks included a 19-year-old fisherman bitten on August 5 and a 10-year-old girl attacked less than three weeks later at Seneca Creek State Park, prompting heightened public health concerns.
